AHIMA Joins ECRI Institute Project to Enhance Patient Safety

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the ECRI Institute are partnering in a pilot project to promote patient safety and quality care through the reduction of health IT risk, and enhancing health IT innovation. The project, the Partnership for Promoting Health IT Patient Safety, will create a national framework to proactively identify and resolve health IT safety issues based on various HIT events and hazards.

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the ECRI Institute are partnering in a pilot project to promote patient safety and quality care through the reduction of health IT risk, and enhancing health IT innovation. The project, the Partnership for Promoting Health IT Patient Safety, will create a national framework to proactively identify and resolve health IT safety issues based on various HIT events and hazards.

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